Beautiful Death, Wallace Stevens: We Live, We Live, But Once Poem by Dennis Ryan

Friday morning, August 4,2023 at 10: 20 a.m.; Saturday morning, August 5, 2023 at 5: 01 a.m. and 5: 14 a.m.; Tuesday
morning, August 8, 2023, begun at 6: 03 a.m. and concluded at
6: 20 a.m.

At last, at last—we come to an end, my, your, our.
(Final hours) . At last, at some unforeseen time. Today
kind of feels like that (feels like a prelude) and I don't know
why. (Should I ask someone? Does dark laughter sound?)
'Death at last' they say in Japanese: 'Tootoo, shinu toki'. Death at last. Beautiful death. Beautiful death—Wallace
Stevens, his poem is correct. We live, we live—but once.